With both the interior and transition offense working smoothly, El Reno High School’s girls basketball team remain in the Suburban Conference title talk with a 57-45 win over No.15 Guthrie.
El Reno, ranked fourth in the same Class 5A poll, moved to 9-3 on the year with the 12-point win over the Bluejays. The Indians are 3-1 in the league standings and in second place behind Piedmont.
Alex Elizondo’s 3-pointer at the buzzer sailed long as El Reno High School’s boys basketball team dropped its second straight Suburban Conference game 67-64 to No.14 Guthrie.
El Reno, now 9-3 on the season, slipped three spots to No.7 in the same Class 5A poll heading into the Shawnee Invitational.
The Indians are now 2-2 in the league standings.
Hunter Mueggenborg hit three of four late free-throw attempts and Easton Roby added one free throw as Okarche High School’s boys basketball team avenged one of its earlier losses with a 63-60 home win over Hennessey. The Warriors, ranked sixth in Class A, improved to 15-2 on the season.
Okarche was coming off a 90-41 win over Thomas/Fay-Custer and battled through more than a dozen ties and lead changes in the first half with Hennessey before outscoring the Eagles 30-27 over the final two periods.
It took four overtimes before Union City High School’s girls basketball team defeated Geary 71-69 in Washita Valley Conference action to improve to 9-7 on the season.
The Tigers, now 2-4 in the WVC standings, were coming off a 58-39 non-conference loss to Burns Flatt-Dill City.
In that loss, Bree Goad scored a team-high 12 points, followed by Emily Griggs with 11. Mackinzie DeLong scored five points, while Megan Goad and Oceanna Schranz added four points each.
Warriors on win streak
Forward Jaiana Wiggins made a basket with 40 seconds to play as Redlands Community College women’s basketball team jumped back into the thick of the NJCAA Region 2 title chase with a 56-55 win over Connors State.
“We were down by one and Jaiana came up with the big basket and then we got a couple of good stops on the other end that allowed things to go our way,” said Redlands head coach Jay Niehues.
The Cougars improved to 9-9 on the season and 2-2 in the region standings with the rally against the Cowboys, who hit 14 3-pointers in the loss.
Though the seedings race for the NJCAA Region 2 Championship is still in its early stages, Redlands Community College men’s basketball team has its work cut out.
The Cougars went into Monday night’s game at Murray State College sitting in the bottom half of the Region 2 regular-season standings with a 1-3 record after dropping an 86-63 home game to Connors State College.
Redlands slipped to 9-9 on the season with that loss and will have 12 straight league games to close out the regular season, six of those at home.
El Reno High School’s wrestling program has a combined 22 state team titles between dual state and the Oklahoma State High School Wrestling Championships.
In the past, 43 EHS grapplers have amassed 75 individual championships and the program recognized over two dozen of those former wrestlers during its annual Alumni Night before the duel with Comanche.
Bouncing back from a loss in its second tournament finale appearance of the season, El Reno High School’s girls basketball team went on the road to defeat Class 5A’s 17th-ranked Del City 51-39.
The win kept El Reno, ranked fourth in the same 5A poll, in the hunt for the Suburban Conference title at 2-1.
The Indians are second in the league standings behind Piedmont (1-0), while Shawnee and Del City are 0-1.
Noble, Carl Albert and Guthrie have yet to start league play.
Scoring in double digits for all four periods, Calumet High School’s girls basketball team uncorked its second highest point total of the season en route to a 65-18 home win over Gracemont.
The win snapped a two-game losing streak as the Chieftains improved to 10-6 on the season. Calumet remained in the thick of the Washita Valley Conference title chase with the 47-point win, which left CHS with a 5-1 record.
Calumet scored no fewer than 13 points in any quarter after opening with a 20-4 blitz over the first eight minutes.
Since joining the Suburban Conference four seasons ago the Del City Eagles have been the thorn in the side of El Reno High School’s boys basketball team, a trend which continued last week.
In a battle of top five teams in Class 5A, the third-ranked Eagles logged their seventh straight win over El Reno, 69-53, to kick start their league slate.
“They are good and that is all there is to it. They played and shot the ball about as good as you can and we didn’t.
“You cannot beat anyone if you don’t play up to your potential.
